It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
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We roundup some of the major electronics news stories from CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2013, which runs 8 - 11 January in Las Vegas. Thursday 10 January CES: LG unveils curved OLED TV LG debuts a curved model of its OLED TV ...
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CES attendees took to the FCC's plan for more Wi-Fi spectrum,which was announced at the show on Wednesday,like hungry gamblers to a buffet. "At this current conference,I would love more Wi-Fi,"said Ellen Arnold,a product strategy program ...
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Watch movies in the shower, capture HDR video, or just use it to make phone calls. Sony says it has something for everyone in its new Xperia Z smartphone, the company's flagship handset for 2013. The phone, which was unveiled on Monday at ...
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Qualcomm's keynote at the International CES was packed with big names and even a Big Bird, but CEO Paul Jacobs' focus was on something much smaller -- a new family of processors aimed at high-end smartphones and tablets. The Snapdragon ...
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IDG News Service - Qualcomm called on some big names Monday to ensure its opening-night keynote at the International CES wasn't a dud. Steve Ballmer, Big Bird, the pop group Maroon5, and even former Archbishop Desmond Tutu all made ...
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After Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance during a Qualcomm keynote at International Consumer Electronics Show(CES),some analysts wondered how married the company is to Snapdragon chips and the ARM-based ecosystem. ...
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SONY yesterday became one of the few brands to unveil a new flagship smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, announcing the Xperia Z. The new phone contains a Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor, a 5-inch full HD 1080p ...
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Qualcomm called on some big names Monday to ensure its opening-night keynote at the International CES wasn't a dud.Steve Ballmer,Big Bird,the pop group Maroon5,and even former Archbishop Desmond Tutu all made appearances to keep things ...
Tags: Ballmer, Big Bird, Desmond Tutu, Qualcomm's CES, the pop group Maroon5
IDG News Service - Nvidia has unveiled its Tegra 4 processor, a chip that will bring consumers more power in mobile devices and help Nvidia remain competitive in the fast moving mobile market. The Tegra 4 is based on ARM's quad-core ...
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Sony has faced up to its recent failures and admitted it's forgotten how to "wow" an audience at the first official day of CES 2013 in Las Vegas today. "We used to make people say 'wow' all the time," announced a voiceover before the ...
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IDG News Service-China's largest search engine Baidu said on Monday the company would provide 30GB of free cloud storage to Android devices built with certain Qualcomm chips,in what's the latest move by the company to carve out a presence ...
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IDG News Service-Lenovo is challenging Google's Nexus 7 tablet with a new range of affordable IdeaTab tablets,which start at$299 and have the Android 4.0 OS. The US$299 IdeaTab A2109 comes with a 7-inch screen,while the$399 IdeaTab S2110 ...
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Computerworld-Intel's former head of Ultra Mobility,hired Monday to become Qualcomm's chief marketing officer,shows that the San Diego-based chip maker is finally serious about marketing,one analyst said. The hiring of Anand ...
Google-owned Motorola Mobility's acquisition of Viewdle this week, a jump in the number of visitors to the insideAR conference and Nokia's recent launch of the City Lens application all illustrate growing interest in augmented reality. ...
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